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v G. O. STANLEY. STOP SHUTTER 0R DIAPHRAGM LIGHT CONTROLLER FOR PHOTOGRAPHIO CAMERAS.

No. 363,429. Patented May 24, 1887..

, UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE OHAMBERLIN STANLEY, OF ITHAOA, NEIV YORK.

STOP-SHUTTERORDIAPHRAGM LIGHT-CONTROLLER FOR PHOTOGRAPHlC CAMERAS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 363,429, dated May 24, 1887.

Application filed March 29, 1886. Serial No. 196,882. (No model.) A

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE CHAMBERLIN STANLEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Ithaca, Tompkins county, New York, have invented an Improved Stop-Shutter or Light Controller for Photographic Lenses, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My object is to construct a diaphragm and shutter in one article or device, the same being used in the central space between the cameralenses in the usual slot of the lenstube, and to operate the shutter in the diaphragm by mechanical means, as will be apparent as I describe my invention.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a lens-tube with my diaphragm in it. Fig. 2 is a view of my diaphragm removed out of the tube. Fig. 3 is a view of the edges of the plates and shutter of my diaphragm, the thickness of the plates being exaggerated. Fig. 4 is aview of the rubber air-valve in section. Fig. 5 is a view of the metal cap that covers the valve. Fig. 6 shows the actual thickness of the plates of the diaphragm and shutter more correctly; and Fig. 7 is a side elevation (shaded) of the band or ring 6 on the Ienstube, and showing the diiphragm-slot through the band and lenstu e.

' In the figures, a represents the screw-plate by which the camera lens-tube is made fast to the camera, and b. is the lens-tube, represented cut in two in the central space between the lenses just in front of the usual place for the diaphragm-slot of the lens-tube.

My diaphragm is made with a rear plate, I), Fig. 3, and a front plate, 12, between which plates or parts the shutter c is inserted, and pivoted by the pin-axis 'c', which, since the shutter is delicately fitted in its place and on this axis, provides for a free and easy motion. An arm, 0', projects beyond the plates and has a slot cut in it, in which is placed the-pivotpin of the lower end of the rod d, connected by its upper end with one end of the lever d, which lever has the pivot-fulcrum d on the post d, which is fast to the ring or band 6, by which the lever is clamped to the tube 1). V The other end of the lever is pivoted to theconnecting-rod d", which rod at its lower end is fast to the rubber valve in the-drum f. This rubber piston-valve i is made in its usual'form by an air-chamber, t", Fig. 41-, with a small air-tube connecting with the usual rubber hand air-ball by the rubber tube 9, which rubber hand airball furnishes the usual air impulse to the rubber valve. The rod (2*, fast to the valve, is impelled upward when the ball is compressed by the hand of the operator, and the transmitted impulse, through the lever d, reaches the shutter of the diaphragm. These impulses so communicated are very rapid and delicate, and open or shut the aperture 1) of the diaphragm quickly or by intervals of any desired lengths of time, thus giving lengths of exposure to light of the negative such as the operator desires, long or short.

The clamping-ring 6 has a hinge, e, and a fixing-screw, e, which hinge and set-screw enable the operatorfl to fasten on the tube the described parts and to remove them from the tube 1) at pleasure without in the least altering or injuring the tube.

phragm is to enable this ring and its connected parts to be removed, and. is also useful when the diaphragm is changed for any reason.

In Fig. 4 the rubber valve is seen in section, having the airchamber 2", the rubber cap or valve i, the rubber tubeg, fast to the downwardprojecting metallic pipe projection, the attached rod (1 above the valve, and the outer cover, f, which cover in Fig. 5 is seen to have a slot, f, by means of which, raising the cover upward on the rod d above the valve, it can be taken off and put on over'the valve and its immediate attached parts. There are represented sections of the wires about the rubber cap or valve (in Fig. 4) that hold the rubber air-tight to the air-chamber. In Fig. 2 the pivot-pin or axis 0 of the shutter is seen, and the general shape desirable for the shutter to have is seen or indicated by dotted lines. The rubber valve acts as a powerful means of opening and closing the shutter; but to make the movements of the shutter more certain I attach a spring, d to the post (1, with its bearing on the lever d. The hand-ball is not represented, because it is well known in photography and in the arts to be a simple hand-ball, which, when compressed, forces air through the tube 9, and when released of the grasp of the hand The use of the slot in the end 0 of the shutter of the three-parted dia-- ICO expands quite strongly, thus exhausting the air beneath the valve. All other parts of my do vice are believed to be fully apparent.

What I claim is 1. The combination of the diaphragm-plates 5 b b, placed between the lenses of a camera, with the slotted shutter c, pivoted between s lid Pl tes, substantially as described.

2. The claspingming 6, adapted to and supporting a pivoted lever by clasping a lens to tube, in combination with a lever and ashutter, which shutter operates in connection with the aperture of a diaphragm of a lens-tube as set forth. 3. The shutter c, pivoted to the central dia- 15 phragm of a lens-tube and inserted between GEORGE CHAMBERHN STANLEY.

Witnesses:

S. J. PARKER, W. B. ESTABROOK. 

